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The Star Tarot Card Meaning
The Star tarot card means hope, renewal and calm. Hope and calm after the storm.
Upright
- Hope
- renewal
- calm
Reversed
- Discouragement
- lost faith
- feeling disconnected
Yes or no
Yes
The Star is card XVII of the 22 major arcana.
What the card shows
A naked woman kneels beside a pool with one foot in the water. She pours water from two jugs, one onto the land and one into the pool. One large star and seven smaller ones shine above her, and a bird sits in a tree behind.
This is the card as drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, which is in the public domain.
Upright meaning
The Star is read as hope returning. It follows The Tower in the deck, and it carries that meaning: after the worst, calm, healing and a quiet belief that things will come right.
The Star reversed
Reversed, it is read as feeling discouraged or cut off, and needing to find your faith in the future again.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, The Star is usually read as a yes. Readers differ on some cards, so treat this as one common reading. You can ask a yes or no question and draw a card for it.
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More Major Arcana cards
The FoolThe MagicianThe High PriestessThe EmpressThe EmperorThe HierophantThe LoversThe ChariotStrengthThe HermitWheel of FortuneJusticeThe Hanged ManDeathTemperanceThe DevilThe TowerThe MoonThe SunJudgementThe World
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